The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, October 1, 1891.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 666, 1 October 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Thursday, October 1, 1891.

Be just and fear not} Let all the ends thou aim’s! at he thy OOUJifay'B, Thy God's, and truth’s.*

Entries for the Trotting Club’s meeting close at 8 to-night. At 8 to-night the entries close for the principal handicaps at the Turf Club’s spring meeting. Mr W. Fergusson, representing the Australian Mutual Provident Society, informs us that the policy of on the life of Mr W. Cooper lapsed two months ago. In another column Mr J. Coope offers a reward of £2O to any person who reCovers the bpdy of the missing matt.

A couple of mischievous boys on Tuesday night took a tin of blue paint from Mr Hall’s place, and then amused themselves by smearing the stuff over the newly-painted fences of Mr Bushnell. Yesterday Constable Reddell sheeted the offence home to the boys, who will probably get the parental chastisement they deserve.

Master Alf. Stephens, who takes the part of Ko Ko in the Mikado, is only thirteen years of age. Little Miss Lily Stephens is a sister of his. It is really wonderful to observe how Mr Pollard has brought the juveniles out. Three married ladies travel with the company and assist in looking after the children, who all seem to be well cared for in every respect. At the meeting of the Borough Council on Tuesday night, the Mayor mentioned that the rates were not coming in well, and that the state of the banking account made it necessary that the Council should be more pressing in the collection of the rates. He said he mentioned this then so as to give timely notice; the matter could be dealt with at next meeting. At the Police Court yesterday, before the Mayor and Mr Lewis, a charge against a boy for stabbing another with a pocket knife was withdrawn. The appeal Barker v. Cook County Council was heard in Banco at Auckland yesterday, and allowed with £7 7s costs. The appeal went off on the ground that the Magistrate received evidence after reserving his decision, no other point being argued, so that the merits of the appeal were not gone into. It will be remembered that one of the blocks of land in the rate book could not be traced in the Native Land Court, and Mr Booth afterwards received evidence which showed that the block mentioned in the rate book was identical with one of another name on the Native Land Court records, and on that founded his decision that Mr Barker was in occupation of all the lands rated.

A Sydney paper fathers the following little tale : —He is an irascible old gentleman at the best of times, and he lives at Randwick. Last Saturday night he took his wife into town to hear the organ-recital, leaving his 16 year-old daughter and a young lady friend to mind house, After the departure of the old people, the girls started to make toffee, and there being no fire in the kitchen, they brought their materials and so on into the dining room, and the ingredients were soon sizzling merrily over the blaze. The molten toffee had just been poured into a flat pan when, horror, the latch key was heard in the front door, and the frightened girls had only time to shove saucepan and toffee under the table, when in marched pa and ma. They were amongst the thousands turned away from the Town Hall. Pa, grumpier even than usual, took off his boots and yelled for his slippers, but, awaiting their arrival, he had the ill-luck to draw up to the table, and, putting his legs under the mahogany, he plumped both feet into the boiling sugar. You should have heard pa howl.

The Total Abstinence and Band of Hope meeting will be held in Wesleyan Sunday school room this (Thursday) evening at 7 30. Good programme—All are welcome.—Advt.